More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."